8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)
Sean Rowe: Desiree
The Van Allen Belt: One On The Board
Sinkane: New Name
Ages And Ages: Light Goes Out
Death Cab for Cutie: Portable Television
Ex Hex: Radio On
Jaill: She’s My Baby
The Smittens: Stop The Bombs
Deerhoof: Paradise Girls
The Blow: Make It Up
Eleanor Friedberger: Stare At The Sun
Cayucas: East Coast Girl
Grizzly Bear: While You Wait For The Others
Telekinesis: Lean on Me
Bleached: Searching Through The Past
Mitski: Townie
Fleet Foxes: Ragged Wood

9:00am (+ 9:00pm!)
Yacht: Where Does This Disco
Camera Obscura: I Missed Your Party
Devendra Banhart: Never Seen Such Good Things
Lavender Diamond: Everybody’s Song
Boardwalk: I’m Not Myself
Michael Kiwanuka: Bones
Sharon Van Etten: I’m Wrong
Caveman: Where’s the Time
Nobody & The Mystic Chords of Memory: Coyote’s Song (When You Hear It Too)
Taken By Trees: Only You
Cass McCombs: Brighter!
Father John Misty: Funtimes in Babylon
Winterpills: Amazing Sky
M. Ward: A Voice At The End of the Line
Kindness: For the Young
Broadcast: Oh How I Miss You

It’s impossible for me to choose just one favorite song from the 2/22/15 show. So…here are all the songs and they are all faves.

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)
Friends: I’m His Girl
The Drums: Book of Revelation
Strand Of Oaks: Goshen ’97
Hospitality: Nightingale
The Firs: A Fight
Jenny Lewis: Just One Of The Guys
Temples: Colours To Life
Fear Of Men: Green Sea
Death Cab for Cutie: Monday Morning
Twin Shadow: Run My Heart
St. Vincent: Digital Witness
Cayucas: Deep Sea
Diane Coffee: Hymn
Luna: That’s What You Always Say
Bleached: For The Feel
The Aislers Set: Through The Swells

9:00am (+ 9:00pm!)
Richard Swift: Lady Luck
Widowspeak: Dyed in the Wool
The Hidden Cameras: Colour Of A Man
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Kiss Me Again
José González: This Is How We Walk On The Moon
Gillian Welch: Six White Horses
Father John Misty: Nancy From Now On
The Innocence Mission: Brotherhood Of Man
Whiskeytown: Dancing With The Women At The Bar
Lavender Diamond: Forgive
Literature: Kites
Wilco: How To Fight Loneliness
PHOX: 1936
Teitur: Antonio And His Mobile Phones
Yo La Tengo: Well You Better

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)
The Unicorns: I Was Born (A Unicorn)
Beverly: Hong Kong Hotel
Valerie June: Workin’ Woman Blues
Joel Jerome: black gold
Local Natives: Wide Eyes
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: In Love With Useless (The Timeless Geometry in the Tradition of Passing)Built To Spill: Hindsight (Felt so good to hear them this morning. Sometimes, Built To Spill sounds so fresh and awakening.)
Conor Oberst: Time Forgot
Angel Olsen: High & Wild
Blouse: No Shelter
Destroyer: Chinatown
Foxygen: No Destruction
Temples: Keep In The Dark
The Aislers Set: Long Division
Christopher Denny: Watch Me Shine

9:00am (+ 9:00pm!)
Death Vessel: Mercury Dime
Tweedy: Summer Noon
MaryLeigh Roohan: Running
Ben Kweller: Wake Up Whispering
El May: Thrills
The Proper Ornaments: Always There
Brigitte Bardot: À la fin de l’été
Lia Ices: Thousand Eyes
Cate Le Bon: Are You With Me Now?
Lyla Foy: HoneymoonCaribou: Can’t Do Without You (Not a song that I’d usually crave, but this one is so catchy that I can’t help it!)
Julie Doiron: Tell You Again
The Rosebuds: Give Me A Reason
Bear in Heaven: Memory Heart
Fear Of Men: Vitrine
Benjamin Verdoes: Forest of Your Mind

9:00am (+ 9:00pm!)
El May: I Played a Role
The Rosebuds: Wait A Minute
Rose Melberg: I Don’t Believe In The Sun
Devon Williams: Will You Let Go Of My Heart?
Broadcast: Winter Now
Angel Olsen: White Fire
The Poets Of Rhythm: Summer Days
Foxygen: How Can You Really
Chromatics: Blue MoonJessica Pratt: Back, Baby (From what I can hear so far, this album could be my first fave of 2015.)
Camera Obscura: New Year’s Resolution
Real Estate: How Might I Live
Cate Le Bon: Mirror Me
Beachwood Sparks: Nature’s Light

Sometimes during 2014 it felt like there wouldn’t be a ton of favorites. I even worried that my ears were getting too old to hear new things. But putting together today’s show was so thrilling that I realized there was the perfect amount of forever songs this year. And that my ears are just fine!

8:00am (+ 8:00pm!)Literature: The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything (Their show at The Low Beat was awesome, like being in some indie, jangle-pop heaven I never knew existed.)Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Fire (I love her dance moves! From 1979 but new to me in 2014.)
Ex Hex: Don’t Wanna Lose
Ariel Pink: Put Your Number In My Phone
Angel Olsen: Hi-Five
Damien Jurado: Silver TimothySinkane: How We Be (This Song + Video = Shot of Adrenaline to Life)Sylvan Esso: Coffee (I want this song to automatically come on when I’m in the car driving around any city late at night. I carry this album with me where ever I go.)
Deerhoof: Paradise Girls
Sean Rowe: Desiree
Strand Of Oaks: Goshen ’97
St. Vincent: Digital Witness
Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks: Little FangFrankie Cosmos: Owen (This whole album is delightful.)
Fear Of Men: Green SeaWarpaint: Disco//very (I can’t listen to this song just once, it’s gotta be at least two times in a row. And its perfect girl gang video is what really opened me up to the whole album.)

9:00am (+ 9:00pm!)
Jenny Lewis: Just One Of The Guys
Real Estate: Talking Backward
Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Night Noises
PHOX: Slow Motion
Temples: Keep In The Dark
Mac DeMarco: Passing Out PiecesMitski: First Love-Late Spring (Her album is already a classic. Kinda in the vein of Exile In Guyville. Yeah, I said that and I mean it! She’s definitely got something special going on, even The New York Times thinks so!)José González: This Is How We Walk On The Moon (I really do like the original by Arthur Russell but this version adds some magic melancholy that makes it even more irresistible.T.Rex: Cosmic Dancer (From 1971 but I only just heard it in November. It came on while I was sitting in a sunbeam in Nashville and I had a few moments of crazy until I figured out who sang it so I could listen to it forever.)
Sylvan Esso: Hey Mami
Quilt: Eye of the Pearl
Sharon Van Etten: Every Time the Sun Comes UpThe Firs: Your White Dress (My most beautiful album of the year. I can listen to it anytime and especially when I’d usually listen to Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago”. A gem.)
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Standing in the Sun